Conquering Horse

Conquering Horse is Frederick Manfred's first novel in a five-volume series he called The Buckskin Man Tales.

It tells a mythic story about Indian life on the Great Plains before the arrival of white people to the region.

Film director/writer Michael Cimino and producer Michael Gruskoff attempted to adapt Manfred's novel to film,[1] but the project, which was in development at Universal in 1970,[2] was tabled in 1971 because of budget issues.

At one point in 1979, he reached a deal with United Artists to make the film, under the condition Heaven's Gate was a hit.

This article about a novel in the Western genre of the 1950s is a stub.